Novelty box



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- C. L. RUBHS.

'NOVELTY BOX.

No. 536,761. Patented Apr. V2, 1895.

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CHARLES L. RUEHS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

NOVELTY Box.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 536,761, dated .April 2, 1895.

Application tiled September 4, 1894. Serial No. 5221082. (No modela) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES L. RUEHS, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Novelty Boxes, of which the following is a specitic'ation.

My invention relates to a new and useful construction for boxes or other articles con; taining sliding drawers.

The object of the invention is to enable the drawer or drawers to be drawn or pushed out from any one of the four sides of the casing, both for greater convenience and for the sake of making a sort of puzzle or curiosity of the bOX.'

The construction of a box containing one drawer is shown by means of four perspectives in the accompanying drawings. In other articles where a greater number of drawers are required, the construction here shown need only be duplicated to any desired extent.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective of the casing. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the upper slide; Fig. 3, of the lower slide; and Fig. 4 of a box which forms the drawer which can be opened from any of the four sides of the box.

The casing has a top, A, a bottom, B, and four corner posts, C, C', C2, C3. The upper slide has two en'd pieces, D, D', and an open rectangular top piece, E. The lower slide has two end pieces, F, F', and a connecting bottom, G. The box, I-I, has four sides, I, I', I2, I3, and a bottom, T. The box lits into both the slides, as shown by the dotted lines; the under slide ts into the casing in the direction of the arrow, F3, and the upper slide ts into the casing in the direction of the arrow, D3.

In putting the box together, one of the slides is pushed into the casing, the box then placed in the other slide and the two pushed into the casing in a direction at right angles to the former slide. When both slides are pushed into the casing until flush with the sides thereof, neither will interfere with the opening of the other slide and the box which gives the appearance of a drawer which can be opened from any one of four directions.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination with a suitable casing of the box or drawer open at the top, and the upper and under slides adapted to co rithe box and to each slide through the ther at right angles thereto; substantially as described.

. CHAS. L. RUEI-IS. Witnesses:

CHARLES O. SHERVEY, A. I. H. EBBEsnN. 

